Herbert Budd Gillespie ’27

HERBERT BUDD Gillespie died May 4, 1993.

"Gil" came to us from Lawrenceville School. At Princeton, he played on the freshman baseball and varsity football squads and was a member of Cottage Club.

Leaving Princeton in 1925, he worked in a variety of jobs as a salesman. Then, he managed the credit dept. of the Bank of Manhattan Co. for seven years, commuting to NYC from Plainfield, N.J., "watching money rates drop to nothing flat." In 1940, he moved to Rochester, N.Y., and trained salesmen in the food business.

During WWII, Gil worked in Washington for the War Production Board, "helping a food maker go slowly crazy." In 1945, he offered "a bottle of whiskey to the first '27er in the Philippines and one to the first in Japan." He was in a position to do so, as v.p. and sales manager for Natl. Distillers. He then moved to Baltimore as a v.p. and director of Pierce & Hebner, importers of fine wine.

He then worked for a time with the Small Business Administration and the Maryland Dept. of Economic Development. He retired in Aug. 1969, and devoted himself to civic activities.

He married his first wife, Grace, in 1932. She died in 1958. He was remarried in 1961. His second wife, Edith, died in 1984.

He claimed to have "held 20 jobs in nine fields and so was the class's rolling stone."

Passages from his letters to the PAW class notes column reveal him to be one of our class characters. Our sympathy goes out to his sister, Sheila Gillespie, and nephew Denis K. Gillespie '54.

The Class of 1927